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Fun For Your Friday

It may be wise to set down all beverages for this one. Wouldn’t want to cause you to choke or do a spit take all over your keyboard. You have been warned. Yesterday morning, a boy woke me up about 6 am saying he’d had a terrible nightmare and had had an...

RIP SuperHero Pajamas

It was inevitable. There was no way to stop a day like this from happening. After all, boys grow. Fabric wears out. No way to stop that. Uh-uh, no-how. The superhero jammies first appeared in our family back in 2001, if I recall correctly. That was the Halloween I...

Fun For Your Friday

Hullo again, friends! It’s officially Friday and time for our weekly chuckle. For my offering this week, I bring to you a story from the past that still makes me giggle. (Originally posted it in August of 2007.) The Mercenary had opted to clean the van for 50...

That Was When I Put Peanut Butter in His Navel

Today? Today was an intense day. Not really bad….just wildly intense. Just to give you a few highlights, I started out with over an hour’s discussion with the older boys (before I’d even gotten out of bed in the morning). They weren’t getting...

Things That Made Me Smile Today

All the boys playing together nicely: today’s big event was dumping a huge barrel of plastic balls down the stairs and laughing at the thunderous noise. Naomi’s post on a certain reality of life as a pregnant mom (sorry, post no longer is published). The...